No alternatives to BCG?

Sara,

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Thanks,
Chris

Thank you for the support. Luckily it seems that my father handled the last dose of BCG pretty well (with only minimal side effects).

I think the 1st time, the reason for all those side effects is because my father held the BCG for ... 5 hours.

The doctor told him he should hold it in for "at least" 2 hours. So my father, thinking the longer the better, held it in for 5 hours. I blame myself, I wasn't very involved at that point, if I was I would have done more research and given my father better instructions.

My question now is, could the 1st time done any permanent damage to my father's bladder? I asked a few doctors, they have differing opinions. The doctor that is actually seeing my father said no, but I feel he is trying to cover any blame he might have.

I've tried Googling it, but turns out there aren't really a lot of other people that held BCG longer than 2 hours.

Hey everyone.

My father was diagnosed with TaG3 papillary cancer. He did TURBT. A month later he did his first dose of BCG. He had a really high fever and was hospitalised for 2 weeks. If I understood correctly he ran the risk of becoming septic.

After that he was a little scared to do the 2nd BCG dose. Especially since the Urologist told him that if the 2nd BCG dose also had extreme side effects (and that it was quite possible he would), there's no really other options. (later he talked about cystectomy)

3 months passed after TURBT and they found CIS. They removed it as well (as I understand it, it was very small and very localised so they were able to excise it).

Tomorrow he is going to do another round of BCG (with half a dose this time).

My question is, if that fails as well, are there really no other options?

I'm reading here about Mitomycin C and Valrucibin, which sure, are less effective than BCG, but surely they are better than nothing.

Right?